Yomie
Explorer Addict
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- 06 Toyota
OK guy's i have done the tortion key flip to get 4+" of drop on my 2nd gen X. My front upper Ball joints are at a SEVERE angle, an angle that is so severe i get scared driving my truck! Sooooo i've done a lil reaserch for extended upper control arms.
As some of you may know the 98+ Ford Ranger uses a SLA type suspention identical to the explorer Except that they use a coil spring on the 2WD, DJM offers a 4" lowering kit for the truck that has coils and extended upper control arms to eliviate the severe angle of the upper balljoint and to eliminate any severe camber problems.
I have looked at the part #'s for the 4WD explorer, 2WD Explorer, and the 2WD Ranger (98+) and it appears that they all use the SAME upper control arm/Ball joint assembly, so if this is the case then the Ranger upper control arms SHOULD work on the explorer.
Remember that ALL my reserch so far has just been with part #'s and not actual installation. I will soon be purchasing a set of these upper control arms to see if they will actuall fit on my explorer and then i will let you good guy's here know what my outcome with them are, if they don't fit i will just sell them to a ranger guy on the other boards.
The reason for this post was jsut to let you Seriously Slammed guy's that there is Possible hopes for our slammed community, hopefully by mid Jan i will have some results for you! Stay tuned and lwt me know your thoughts on this.
I have a thread started here too
http://www.rangerpowersports.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=526590#post526590
As some of you may know the 98+ Ford Ranger uses a SLA type suspention identical to the explorer Except that they use a coil spring on the 2WD, DJM offers a 4" lowering kit for the truck that has coils and extended upper control arms to eliviate the severe angle of the upper balljoint and to eliminate any severe camber problems.
I have looked at the part #'s for the 4WD explorer, 2WD Explorer, and the 2WD Ranger (98+) and it appears that they all use the SAME upper control arm/Ball joint assembly, so if this is the case then the Ranger upper control arms SHOULD work on the explorer.
Remember that ALL my reserch so far has just been with part #'s and not actual installation. I will soon be purchasing a set of these upper control arms to see if they will actuall fit on my explorer and then i will let you good guy's here know what my outcome with them are, if they don't fit i will just sell them to a ranger guy on the other boards.
The reason for this post was jsut to let you Seriously Slammed guy's that there is Possible hopes for our slammed community, hopefully by mid Jan i will have some results for you! Stay tuned and lwt me know your thoughts on this.
I have a thread started here too
http://www.rangerpowersports.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=526590#post526590